Single-source dual-energy spectral multidetector CT of pancreatic adenocarcinoma: Optimization of energy level viewing significantly increases lesion contrast

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 148-154

  Patel, B N ^a   Thomas, J V ^a   Lockhart, M E ^a   Berland, L L ^a   Morgan, D E ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION ENERGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE SOURCE DUAL ENERGY MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84872146452     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: 1365229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2012.06.108     Document Type: Article

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